A Brief Biography of Shemuel Yeshurun

Developer and founder of FreeChair 

Shemuel Yeshurun has been involved in methods for improving movement repertoire, aiming to expand and refine the use of the self through awareness, in order to reduce pain or limitations in movement, and promote general well-being. Shemuel believes that health is founded on good function and that body/mind exploration improves functioning (health) by making individuals more aware. Flexible minds are the foundations of flexible bodies.

Shemuel background is a triathlon athlete, as well as a practicing Chi-Gong, Yoga, and aikido. This diverse background deeply contributed to his research. Major influences on Shemuel work include: Elsa. Gindler,Jigoro Kano, Gurdjieff, Emile Coué, William Bates, Henrich Jacoby, Mabel Todd, F. Matthias Alexander and Moshe Feldenkrais. All of whom were concerned with awareness and education.

Shemuel gave the name “Dynamic Sitting Technology” to a series of demonstrations he devised as he was passionate to explore the possibility of combining stillness with movement since he always was a great believer in the old saying and truth:  “where there is movement, there is life”.

His developments were intended to provide concrete directions for learning about the physical experience associated with the movements. The goal was to increase personal awareness through movement.

Opening the possibility of actively implementing the new ideas to various applications. Shemuel taught that changes in our ability to move are inseparable from changes in our conscious perception of ourselves. He said that changes in the mental experience could be described as changes in our physical experience.

Shemuel is a Certified Trainer of The Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education.

He is a long-time student of Aikido and Yoga, and is known for his ability to explain difficult subjects in a way that makes them easy to understand.

Shemuel is frequently invited to speak at scientific and transformational forums and conferences acrossIsrael, and over the years has taught a wide range of workshops and seminars. In the past he has conducted his own private therapy practice utilizing the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education working with children and adults to improve function and well-being through improved movement.

Shemuel started FreeChair Dynamic sitting technology Institute in 2006 with borrowed equipment set up on his living room. As of 2010, people in six continents have used FreeChair technology to improve their lives.

The FreeChair dynamic sitting solution utilizes FreeChair’s proprietary technology, embedded beneath a rocking meditation chair, to induce deep meditative states, causing the body to reorganize at higher levels of functioning.

The FreeChair solution is designed to help people discover how they create their internal states and external results by utilizing dynamic sitting technology.

Shemuel lives inIsrael, in a beautiful village in the lowerGalileesurrounded by the Bet-Keshet forest.

His passion for education is also expressed through his active membership with  “Bow and Arrow” an organization dedicated to establishing a holistic education system in the Lower Galilee area for the benefit of the children of the area and our common future.